In June, 2002, the government of Dominica requested assistance in evaluating the coral culture and transplantation activities being undertaken by Oceanographic Institute of Dominica (OID), a coral farm culturing both western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific corals for restoration and commercial sales. We assessed the culture facilities of OID, the condition of reefs, potential impacts of coral collect...

BACKGROUND Diseases caused by microorganisms and parasites remain a major challenge globally and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa to man and livestock. Resistance to available antimicrobials and the high cost or unavailability of antimicrobials complicates matters. Many rural people use plants to treat these infections. Because some anthelmintics e.g. benzimidazoles also have good antifungal ...

T he ion channel field has benefited enormously from a plethora of natural toxins that target specific ion channels (1–13), and those toxins continue to be key molecular tools in the postgenomics era. The ion transporter field has not been so lucky, in general. Its arsenal of specific toxins is much more limited, perhaps because it’s not so easy to bring one’s prey, or biological enemy, quickly...

St. Paul’s Rocks is a very small group of rocky islands located on the mid-Atlantic Ridge just north of the Equator, about 1000 km from the Brazilian coast. The aim of this work is to add new information on the abundance, biology, zoogeography and taxonomy of its reef fishes. In the course of four expeditions the fish fauna was surveyed in tide pools and over reefs at depths down to 62 m using ...